The joys of housecleaning

Happy 2026! Surprisingly, the new year has not brought much more rain in this part of the world than last year. It's been strangely dry this season, and moving across the border between that part of the solar revolution and this part of the solar revolution hasn't made much of a difference. Yes, I'm trying to be funny and sarcastic, and it really isn't working, is it?

The holiday season was the same for us as it's always been, which is pretty much just the same day-to-day as every other season. Mum-in-law was a little less annoying than usual, calling on both Christmas Eve and Christmas to ask how we liked what she sent us, and then calling every day after that for a week to ask if we'd received the card she sent (which we never did, as I think about it). It's not that it was a special card or had anything extra in it. It was just late (or lost) and she wanted to make sure it got to us (and that we thanked her for it; that's her real goal). I don't know why she doesn't pack the card in the box with the presents when she sends them.

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